novelraw Chapter 35: Disguise
Chapter 35: Disguise
Originally, Qiao Mingyuan was planning to hang up his phone and turn it off to avoid the ringtone exposing his location.
However, when he glanced at the phone screen, he froze instantly.
Because the caller ID wasn't a string of numbers or someone's name.
Instead, it read—
"Qiao Mingyuan, do you want to live?"
Looking at this utterly bizarre caller ID.
Qiao Mingyuan's first thought was that the nearby cell tower had been hacked, allowing someone to arbitrarily edit the caller ID text.
His second thought was that the person calling knew his situation and wasn't on the side of his pursuers.
Thinking this, Qiao Mingyuan took a deep breath.
Then he answered the call."Beep—" The call connected.
Qiao Mingyuan immediately asked in a low voice, "What should I do now?"
At this life-or-death moment, Qiao Mingyuan naturally wouldn't ask meaningless questions.
Like 'How do you know I'm Qiao Mingyuan?', 'Who are you?', 'Why are you saving me?' and so on...
"If you want to live, listen to me."
In Magic City, Su Yuan sat calmly on the sofa.
He had never been to South Sea Island, nor had he made any arrangements there.
He didn't even know what was currently happening on South Sea Island.
But according to the plan devised by the gray mirror.
By dialing the corresponding phone number at a specific time, he would definitely be able to contact Qiao Mingyuan.
And at this moment, Qiao Mingyuan was at his most vulnerable and would follow Su Yuan's instructions completely.
This was also the first step in the plan to thoroughly subdue Qiao Mingyuan, this expert in communications and wireless fields.
"Okay."
Qiao Mingyuan composed himself.
At this moment, numerous thoughts flashed through his mind.
Although he didn't know exactly who the person calling was.
It definitely wasn't the group hunting him.
Otherwise, they wouldn't need to go through all this trouble.
Twenty seconds later.
Su Yuan's voice came through again: "Now walk to the restroom entrance."
Hearing this, Qiao Mingyuan immediately stood up, came out from the innermost area, and stopped at the restroom entrance.
Eighteen seconds later.
"Walk out, turn left, stop at the intersection for six seconds, then continue straight ahead..."
Although he didn't understand Su Yuan's commands, Qiao Mingyuan obediently followed the instructions.
If there were a 360-degree aerial map, one would discover that there were at least several dozen black-suited men with sunglasses searching near the station at this moment.
The two closest black-suited men with sunglasses were only about ten meters away from the restroom where Qiao Mingyuan had been hiding earlier.
The several dozen black-suited men with sunglasses clearly had unified command, searching different areas separately with good coordination.
However, when Qiao Mingyuan stepped out of the restroom, the two nearest black-suited men with sunglasses happened to be looking in other directions and didn't notice the restroom ahead.
By the time they looked forward again, Qiao Mingyuan had already left.
And subsequently, Qiao Mingyuan walked and stopped, his figure appearing extremely coincidentally in the blind spots of the black-suited men with sunglasses.
Just like that, Qiao Mingyuan arrived outside a room.
"The door isn't locked, push it open and go in."
Following Su Yuan's instructions, Qiao Mingyuan pushed the door open directly, then closed it behind him.
"What is this place?"
Qiao Mingyuan glanced around.
This room should be the station staff's changing room, and specifically the female staff's changing room, with a faint scent of perfume floating in the air.
"The women's changing room?"
Qiao Mingyuan immediately felt troubled.
As everyone knows, changing rooms are places with constant foot traffic. If he, a man, was discovered in the women's changing room, it would definitely be big trouble.
At that point, he wouldn't need the black-suited men outside to search for him—he'd be thrown out directly.
"Don't worry, no one will enter this changing room for the next half hour."
Su Yuan's voice came through the phone into Qiao Mingyuan's ears.
"Hmm."
Qiao Mingyuan didn't know why the person calling him was so certain that no one would enter for half an hour.
But at this moment, he could only follow the other person's instructions.
"There's a cabinet in the left front, open it. Inside there's a miniature earpiece. Connect it to your phone's Bluetooth. We'll communicate through the earpiece from now on."
Su Yuan continued giving instructions.
He didn't mind, but Qiao Mingyuan holding a phone to his ear was too conspicuous.
"Understood."
Qiao Mingyuan nodded and successfully put the earpiece in his ear.
"This earpiece sells for 98 yuan in Xia Country." Su Yuan continued.
"Okay..." Qiao Mingyuan was slightly taken aback, then immediately took out one hundred dollars and placed it where the earpiece had been.
This way, when the original owner of this earpiece discovered it was missing, they would also receive one hundred dollars as compensation.
Since South Sea Island is a major tourist island, dollars can easily be exchanged for local currency.
"Now go to the third row of lockers, open locker number 5. There's a set of clothes inside, take them out..."
"Locker number 7 in the fourth row, open it and take out the wig inside..."
"Locker number 2 in the sixth row, open it and take out the set of cosmetics inside..."
...
Qiao Mingyuan strictly followed Su Yuan's instructions, gathering a large pile of items from numerous lockers.
Since this was the women's changing room, all these items were women's products, including that set of clothes which was actually a dress.
"What is this for?"
Qiao Mingyuan wondered in his heart—why was he taking out so many women's items?
"Now, open the makeup kit..."
At this moment, Su Yuan's voice came through again.
The next moment.
Qiao Mingyuan understood what Su Yuan wanted him to do.
Makeup.
Su Yuan actually wanted him to apply makeup on himself.
"All station exits are currently blocked. To get out, you need to change your appearance." Su Yuan explained.
Actually, Su Yuan was lying here.
In the plan provided by the gray mirror, there were hundreds, even thousands of methods to help Qiao Mingyuan escape the Truth Society's pursuit.
Using makeup for disguise was just the simplest and most convenient method.
So Su Yuan chose this approach.
As for Qiao Mingyuan's thoughts? As long as he could survive, not to mention dressing as a woman—even if he had to become a woman, Qiao Mingyuan would agree.
It was precisely because of this extreme hatred toward the Truth Society and his obsession with rescuing his wife that Su Yuan could completely control him.
"Alright..."
Qiao Mingyuan didn't actually mind dressing as a woman. Having lived overseas for so many years, his adaptability was naturally strong.
However, how could a man so easily pass as a woman?
The people hunting him were experienced killers—could he really deceive them?
...
Ten minutes later.
Looking at himself in the mirror.
After being covered with cosmetics, Qiao Mingyuan's appearance had indeed changed somewhat, but overall, traces of him being a man could still be seen.
After all, makeup only conceals—it doesn't directly alter facial features like plastic surgery.
"In the corner of the second drawer on the right, there are two iron needles. Find them."
Su Yuan's voice came through the earpiece.
"Iron needles?" Qiao Mingyuan searched around and soon indeed found two slender iron needles.
Similar to embroidery needles.
"What now?" Qiao Mingyuan asked.
"Take one iron needle and insert it three centimeters below the back of your neck..."
Su Yuan's voice instructed.
"Use this iron needle to stab myself?" Qiao Mingyuan was startled.
Although the iron needles were very slender, Qiao Mingyuan still felt somewhat panicked.
Wasn't this suicide?
"If I wanted to kill you, I wouldn't need to go through all this trouble." Su Yuan said.
Hearing this, Qiao Mingyuan remained silent for two breaths, then his gaze immediately became resolute.
He then picked up one iron needle and directly inserted it into the position Su Yuan had indicated.
The second iron needle was inserted into the other side of his neck.
And as the two iron needles were inserted, the skin on Qiao Mingyuan's face was pulled and fixed, thereby affecting his facial features, and his appearance rapidly began to change.